New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has returned around $9,000 in potentially illegal foreign donations.
The socialist’s campaign had taken nearly $13,000 from overseas donations, the New York Post reported earlier this month. Two criminal referrals were filed against Mamdani’s campaign Tuesday by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation over the donations.
Mamdani’s campaign says the remaining $4,000 comes from American citizens living overseas, which are legal donations.
The campaign refunded around $4,000 from 67 overseas donors during the filing period between Sept. 8 and Oct. 20, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board. One donation came from Ada Diaz Ahmed, a Dubai-based investor, who lent the Mamdani campaign the maximum $2,100.
Mamdani’s campaign continued to receive donations from abroad recently, taking in $130 total from
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